Heck

Lyle sat down heavily on the floor,

"god doing this for a few hours in a row really does a number one you, you better have gotten it, cause I'm not doing that again."

Jason nodded and looked at the notification in front of him, after a few hours of studying with h help of Boops he had finally understood the core principles of the skill Shunpo.

[you have acquired a new skill!]

[Shunpo level 1: you move at a high speed for a quick moment using mana]

[mana cost: 200]

[cool down: 5 hours]

Jason had learned while watching Lyye that the movement of Shunpo had something to do with mana or some type of energy, Most of the time, Lyle just disappeared and reappeared. But other times he would disappear with a trail of flames following him to where he appeared next. From what Jason and Boops gathered, they were using different types of elemental mana which also meant that there were different effects depending on the mana that was used.

Well, that was for much later, heck currently he didn't even know how to use elemental mana even though he was supposed to have an affinity with all of them.

Lyle looked up at the sky, it was already afternoon. He stood up and dusted off his pants.

"well, I have a lot of crap to do, do sprints to build up your agility and work a bit on your 2nd form. Currently, at your state, Shunpo won't do much for you. If you try it and I think you'll be on the gound like before. Get your basics down and then work to the flashy cool stuff k?"

"Alright, thanks for the lesson Lyle"

Lyle had already turned away when Jason thanked him, so Jason couldn't see Lyle's smile.

"heh, yeah anytime"

And Lyle disappeared into the forest without another word.

Jason looked at the forest where Lyle had left and sighed to himself. He had just spent the last few hours studying a skill, so it sorta counted as a break for his body.

But dear god, doing sprints for an entire afternoon and night? this was going to be painful.

Jason stretched his arms and legs a bit. After that, he pulled out his iron sword and looked at it with a serious expression. After fighting with Charlie and Lyle who both had their glowy swords that could destroy anyone from their coolness alone. Jason realized how important the weapon was. Besides he had forgotten to combine the spare weapons he had with the iron sword using the system feature.

Eh, he would do it another day, he promised himself. He had to now train and get stat points. Jason lowered his body and started to sprint, as hard as possible. Yet somehow with the aid of Jason's high stamina stat that he got from the earlier days, he was able to sprint for far longer than usual.

So now Jason was alone with his thoughts, and Boops but Boops had been quiet for a while, it seems he was there talking with the twins or just derping around in his brain space. Since he had nothing else he started to manage the time he had into periods of what he would do. For the rest of the afternoon, he would do sprints while during the night he would do the 2nd form. Well, that was pretty simple. Jason kinda wanted to practice the Shunpo skill, but according to Lyle, it would leave a heavy impact on his body. He was so tempted to try it out once though, just once. To see how strong the skill actually was.

Sprinting, while it's extra hard since you putting your all into running a designated distance, can get repetitive and when things get repetitive people to get bored, and soon enough Jason's body was again running on autopilot.

To Jason, that was fricking great, it meant he could go into his brain space and play video games in that gaming room in his mind. And his body would just run to the edge of the field and turn right back after it had already done that hundred of times. Heck, the fatigue would only hit him when he entered the physical body again. Okay that part sucked, it was like getting run over by a truck of fatigue but otherwise it was fine.

He entered the familiar white space and saw Boops right in front of him. Boops in his orb form, before was a bit hard to get used to. But eventually, Jason got used to it and was able to talk with Boops like how they talked in Jason's head. Which in hindsight Jason was a bit confused about how he got so used to having a voice in his head. Or how he so easily accepted it in the beginning. Like wouldn't normal people be freaked out at that?

Boops noticed Jason staring at him and twirled around to look at him. (even though he had no face, just a glowing orb that shone a bit brighter when it talked"

'Hey, what's up Jason, zoned out of your physical body again?'

"Yeah, sprinting between two places gets boring at around the 347 time."

'hmm well, judging from the time you have left you're going to have to do it 1304 more times before its night and you have to get back to your physical body to do the second form'

"ugh the pain and fatigue that's going to hit me... oh god that's going to hurt"

'i'd be surprised if you don't puke'

"ha thank you that tOtAlLy helps"

Boops snickered at Jason's sarcastic tone

'glad to be of service Jason'

Jason looked over at what Boops was focusing on

"whatcha doing there?"

Boops turned to what Jason was looking at

'ahh that, I'm looking at the status of the wolves'

"oh wow, it feels like I haven't seen them for the longest time. How are they doing?"

'very well, since they're your direct subordinates they get a ton of bonuses, one of them is getting their innate level cap removed.'

"sooo that means?"

'their level up speed is faster than yours'

"aw wait, I'm not focusing on leveling up and you know that,"

'yeah, yeah your getting stat points which means your already getting greater benefits then leveling up, I've heard this already. But dude you're about to get shown up by some wolves. And your subordinates no less, speaking of which....'

[your subordinate Jeffrey has leveled up! +10 points]

[your subordinate Arnou has leveled up! +10 points]

[your subordinate Amoux has leveled up +10 points]

[your subordinate.....]

The notifications suddenly popped up in front of Jason. And Boop without even having a face managed to give Jason a smug look.

Jason sighed and answered

"Alright, alright what do you want me to do?"

Boops answered

'After this go on another hunt through the forest, this time focus on getting as many monster baits as possible. I think we should start moving on our "monster free for all" plan that we have. That and we need to get the skills and weapons to Perseus soon, he says that he's moving very soon.'

"that fast, didn't he just get a group of boys to join him?"

'Yeah, and he's power leveling them to high heaven'

"ohhh frick I'm really behind on levels huh"

'na actually your still quite high leveled compared to Perseus and Arjuna currently. But the wolves are actually a bit higher than you in terms of levels'

"well they were always higher leveled them me"

'yeah but that doesn't give you an excuse to be weaker than your subordinates'

"Yeah, yeah sure, but I heard many times that the final trial is coming soon and clues as to what it is?"

'oh! yeah, I totally forgot about that, so basically I found a few books on the trails, most of the information about the different trials I think you already know so ill skip them. But the final trial usually is a disaster rank thing in the kingdom. The entire barrack group works together to defeat whatever problem it is, whether it be a large group of monsters or a dungeon outbreak, basically whatever big problems the kingdom has, the rose knights use that as training for the trainees'

Jason quietly thought about what Boops had just said, he wasn't sure about what it meant by disaster rank, but currently, he didn't want to ask, he had way too much on his plate currently.

Jason really wanted to take a break somehow. With all of the stuff that he had gone through he was really tired and stressed in every way possible, from lack of sleep to hunger. God the list was just piling on. So Jason looked at Boops and asked for help at what would be the best way to relive all of the stress he had accumulated

"wanna play some games?"

Boops didn't even need to answer, he just sped to the gaming room and a second chair appeared in it.